tarradiddle

tarradiddle
noun
Informal.
a small lie; fib.

pretentious nonsense.



taradiddle
British 
/ ;t;r;;d;d;l /
noun
another spelling of tarradiddle

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Etymology
Origin of taradiddle
First recorded in 1790–1800; origin uncertain; diddle 2 ( def. )

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Of course, perhaps there really are “both sides” to this question: truth and taradiddle.

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If I have been telling nasty horrid wicked little taradiddles, Upward won’t give me away, for I shall tip him the masonic wink not to.

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Now the fiddlers tune their fiddles To the lovely taradiddles Of old Wagner, Mozart, Bizet, and the rest.

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Eugene choked with a sense of repugnance to her airy taradiddles.

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You shall have a sovereign for that taradiddle!

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